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Postby Nate » Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:44 am

What if Benjamin Franklin hadn't invented electricity?
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Postby MomentOfInertia » Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:07 pm

Kaligraphic (post: 1432440) wrote:What if aliens had invaded during WWII? We could all be speaking Martian today.

Actually, Harry Turtledove got a series of novel out of that. I forget what the name was though...
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Postby Roy Mustang » Fri Oct 22, 2010 3:38 pm

MomentOfInertia wrote:Actually, Harry Turtledove got a series of novel out of that. I forget what the name was though...


Worldwar was the name of the series of four books.

Worldwar: In the Balance (1994)
Worldwar: Tilting the Balance (1995)
Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance (1996)
Worldwar: Striking the Balance (1996)

Following that series was the Colonization series.

Second Contact (1999)
Down to Earth (2000)
Aftershocks (2001)
Homeward Bound (2004)


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Postby A88mph » Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:46 pm

Here's a thought (since the events of the bible are apart of history):

What if Adam and Eve resisted Santins temptation to eat the fruit? and gave birth to sinless children?

The question then come to when down the line would someone eat the fruit? would there be both a sinful and sinless humanity today? and how would that work out?
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Postby Nate » Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:53 pm

What if God was one of us?

Just a slob like one of us?

Just a stranger on the bus, trying to make his way home?
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Postby armeck » Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:31 pm

people would probably trample over Him the same way we do each other..



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Postby Mr. Rogers » Sun Oct 31, 2010 6:47 pm

What if I hadn't single-handedly killed all the dinosaurs?
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Postby XIV_whisper » Sun Oct 31, 2010 6:49 pm

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Postby FllMtl Novelist » Sun Oct 31, 2010 6:57 pm

Mr. Rogers (post: 1434248) wrote:What if I hadn't single-handedly killed all the dinosaurs?

We'd have paid someone else to do it.

Thanks for saving us money~
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Postby MomentOfInertia » Sun Oct 31, 2010 7:23 pm

Mr. Rogers (post: 1434248) wrote:What if I hadn't single-handedly killed all the dinosaurs?

Richard would have done it.
He would have been cheaper, faster, and more entertaining.
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Postby Doubleshadow » Mon Nov 01, 2010 7:14 pm

Nate (post: 1432467) wrote:What if Benjamin Franklin hadn't invented electricity?

Nice trick question. :P

I have a good one! What if Joan of England hadn't died of the Black Plague and lived to marry her Spanish Prince? I think it's pretty nifty that it took her death to make the royals realize the could die in the Plague, too. Very cool little wikipedia entry.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_England_(1335–1348[/url])
This is actually adressed in a book called In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death & the World it Made by Norman Cantor.
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Postby Dante » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:03 pm

What if Benjamin Franklin hadn't invented electricity?


Then God would still hold his rightful patent to it. Benjamin Franklin, that fraud. First Newton "invents" gravity and then Benjamin Franklin "invents" electricity!
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Postby Nate » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:13 pm

Pascal wrote:Benjamin Franklin, that fraud. First Newton "invents" gravity and then Benjamin Franklin "invents" electricity!

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Postby bkilbour » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:47 pm

So... what if Kurt Cobain didn't die back in '94, but quit drugs instead?
Would NIrvana still be around?
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Postby airichan623 » Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:12 pm

What if all the Beatles were still alive?
what if the watergate tapes were never found?
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Postby armeck » Tue Nov 02, 2010 6:51 pm

Nate (post: 1432467) wrote:What if Benjamin Franklin hadn't invented electricity?


he didn't invent it.
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Postby Nate » Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:50 pm

armeckthefirst wrote:he didn't invent it.

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Postby armeck » Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:00 pm

i feel like a HUGE idiot now... oh wait... I AM
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Postby Nate » Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:05 pm

Nah you're not. It was a subtle attempt at humor. :p And falls in line with my theory that any time I make a joke without posting ":p" nobody realizes it's a joke. XD
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Postby armeck » Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:20 pm

yeah those smiley faces can really help with the meaning of the post lol
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Postby WhiteMage212 » Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:41 pm

what if, CAA didn't exist? *gasp*
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Postby armeck » Sat Dec 04, 2010 7:07 pm

i'd have less to do
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